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Neurodivergent artists: Actors and Writers of 'Patience' (plus resources and more)
How can our ADHD, autism, dyslexia and other experiences contribute to being creative?
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Douglas Eby
Being Both Highly Sensitive and Autistic: The Sensitive Autistic Neurotype
Neurotype refers to classes of nervous systems, such as the neurodivergent “differently wired brains” many of us have, with ADHD, autism, and other…
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Douglas Eby
Autistic Women: Perspectives by Hannah Gadsby, Kayla Crome, Daryl Hannah, Sue Ann Pien, Zhara Astra, Julie Bjelland
Listen now | "Autism informs everything that I do - it's my processing unit so it's how the information goes in and out...I just think about things…
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Douglas Eby
28:15
Embracing neurodivergent people as positive and valuable in a workplace
Listen now | Embracing neurodivergent people as positive and valuable in a workplace. Is self-diagnosis helpful? How are organizations supporting…
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Douglas Eby
20:13
Autism: Imagination, Attention and Other Assets for Creative People
Perspectives from artists and psychologists
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Douglas Eby
The complex experience of ADHD adults with Linda Roggli
Listen now (10 mins) | "Owning an ADHD brain has its challenges — time blindness, trouble with initiation and completion, impatience, impulsivity. And…
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Douglas Eby
9:30
Can our neurodivergent brains come with mental illness? Damn straight.
As multiple psychologists and writers note, those of us who are neurocomplex and neurodivergent people can also be more vulnerable to emotional or…
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Douglas Eby
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Highly Sensitive, Neurodivergent and Misunderstood. How Can We Be Ourselves?
Listen now (12 mins) | Being a highly sensitive person, or neurodivergent in other ways, we may have grown up feeling misunderstood, and even like we…
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Douglas Eby
11:41
How high sensitivity and autism overlap, plus some key differences
Listen now | "Although there may be some similarities between the sensory processing challenges experienced by highly sensitive individuals [HSPs] and…
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Douglas Eby
11:17
Feeling flawed as a neurodivergent child or adult - What can change that?
Listen now | "It is hard to change that feeling flawed piece...it's so seeped into your bones because it's your inner child. It's stuff that you learned…
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Douglas Eby
6:10
Online communities that support creative, highly sensitive, gifted, neurodivergent people
How can participating in a community of others that share your unique personality and cognitive differences help enhance your personal growth and…
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Douglas Eby
Highly sensitive and autistic women - Often a hidden world.
Listen now | Therapist Julie Bjelland says "the reason we call it hidden is because many of the things that we experience as autistic women are in fact…
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Douglas Eby
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